Buffalo Still Shines

Published: September 11, 2001

To the Editor:

A resident of New York City for 15 years now, I was born and grew to college age in a suburb of Buffalo. Your Sept. 7 news article ''Buffalo Gazes Back to a Time When Fortune Shone'' is a reminder that where we dwell, and how others living in the same place or elsewhere perceive it, shouldn't matter.

Buffalo has many glorious aspects. Those who live there might consider a break from trying to gain the respect of others, and leave a once illustrious past to a future of even greater possibilities.